Is this not pathetic, Odd, what some ill-educated fool has done? I take solace in reminding myself that ‘art is long and critics are the insects of a day.’” “Shakespeare?” I asked. “No. Randall Jarrell. A wonderful poet, now all but forgotten because modern universities teach nothing but self-esteem and toe-sucking.

This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel.

The difference in then and now having then wanting now.

Americans eat 150 times as many chickens as we did only eighty years ago.

Written By Jonathan Safran Foer

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